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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Mindful breathing, walking, smiling and looking can stop what?
(a) Your daily routines.
(b) The constant state of agitation we are in.
(c) Your understanding.
(d) Your work.

2. What does seeing the cause of our suffering do to our suffering?
(a) Ends it.
(b) Encourages it.
(c) Strengthens it.
(d) Eases it.

3. We must practice what to understand the Four Noble Truths?
(a) Mindfulness.
(b) Patience.
(c) Quiet.
(d) The twelve turnings of the wheel of Dharma.

4. Whatever we think will make us happy can often be what?
(a) A part of happiness.
(b) Paths to happiness.
(c) Makes us happy.
(d) Obstacles to happiness.

5. Siddhartha Gutama sat under a bodhi tree and vowed not to get up until when?
(a) He was tired of sitting.
(b) Nightfall.
(c) He understood how to alleviate suffering.
(d) Someone had come to save him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Buddha said we feed our happiness or suffering with how man nutriments?

2. We need to learn to speak only with what?

3. Our views are perception at the top and mind, or _____________________.

4. We need only to understand what about the other person?

5. Which turning of the Fourth Noble Truth is the recognition that we are practicing to transform our difficulties and ceasing to ingest pain-causing nutriments?

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